c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power." — Alice Walker
"I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser." — Shirley MacLaine
"But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time." — Tom Hanks
"Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!" — Rick Perry
"What is history but a fable agreed upon?" — Napoleon Bonaparte
"In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long." — Wallace Shawn
"As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing." — Claude Chabrol
"There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes." — Harvey Weinstein
"And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion." — Vicente Fox
"God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life." — Swami Vivekananda
"If you're a Christian you don't sit there and worry about what somebody else is doing, if they're happy and they're committed in a relationship." — Howard Stern
"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose." — Dennis Potter
"I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her." — Ellie Goulding
"When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody." — John McGahern
"Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business." — Twyla Tharp
"Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence." — Nam June Paik
"Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad." — Christina G. Rossetti
"Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life." — Rick Larsen
"I mean, that's a sad day in America when you're recalled because you did what you said you were going to do, and the public voted you in to do that." — Russell Pearce
"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal." — Gloria Steinem
"We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses." — Maria Montessori
"You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning." — Karlie Kloss
"All nature is but art unknown to thee." — Alexander Pope
"Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative." — Maurice Chevalier
"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see." — Arthur Schopenhauer
"Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes." — John Schlesinger
"The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution." — Byron White
"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best." — Benjamin Disraeli
"I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism." — Bell Hooks
"Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans." — Adlai E. Stevenson
"In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good." — Sun Tzu
"In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important." — Dean Kamen
"There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics." — Alastair Campbell
"Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car." — Dan Wheldon
"Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government." — Milton Friedman
"I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well." — Earl Scruggs
"There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side." — Jack Kemp
"We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress." — Tennessee Williams
"Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul." — Dorothy Day
"The poster boy for our superabled future is Oscar Pistorius, an increasingly famous South African sprinter who happens to have had both of his legs amputated below the knee. Using upside down question mark-shaped carbon fiber sprinting prosthetics, called Cheetah blades, Mr. Pistorius can challenge the fastest sprinters in the world." — Daniel H. Wilson
"My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points." — Margot Kidder
"If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool." — Ben Nicholas
"To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation." — Adlai E. Stevenson
"When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother." — Rodney Dangerfield
"Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap." — Dee Dee Myers
"To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not." — Akhenaton
"Nothing has more strength than dire necessity." — Euripides
"I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it." — Charles Schumer
"Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong." — Ice T
"When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho." — Sarah Jessica Parker
"Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding." — Edward Albert
"Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting." — James D. Watson
"We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft." — Adlai E. Stevenson
"Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good." — Walter Savage Landor
"Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built." — Fernando Pessoa
"I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest of society Tea Party zealots, who say with a straight face that they want the government to get out of their Medicare and remnants of the pro-business moderates." — Eliot Spitzer
"The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female." — Anna Quindlen
"God never ends anything on a negative God always ends on a positive." — Edwin Louis Cole
"Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'" — Sydney J. Harris
"From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance." — Mary C. Jones
"The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt." — Henry George
"The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power." — Carol P. Christ
"Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned." — Fred Upton
"The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people." — Charles L. Allen
"Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy." — P. J. O'Rourke
"I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that." — Chris Cooper
"If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society." — Gloria Steinem
"If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell." — Lance Armstrong
"It's a tricky place, especially the last sector. I wasn't happy in practice. I wasn't happy with the car and I wasn't happy with myself. But I always thought there was more in the car." — Sebastian Vettel
"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." — Benjamin Disraeli
"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." — Les Brown
"More men die of jealousy than of cancer." — Joseph P. Kennedy
"Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone." — Georg Solti
"Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself." — Ken Kesey
"The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology." — Cynthia McKinney
"I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means." — Dave Matthews
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." — Mahatma Gandhi
"From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money." — Christie Hefner
"The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me." — Peter Fonda
"Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself." — David Sedaris
"The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little." — Ben Sweetland
"Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?" — Casey Stengel
"The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time." — Joseph Ratzinger
"The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'" — Bill Maher
"After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union." — David Cameron
"The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do." — Ring Lardner
"Now, personally, I like a car with some sort of character." — Richard Hammond
"Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon." — Andre Gide
"It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse." — Adlai E. Stevenson
"Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are." — Henry David Thoreau
"Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction." — E. O. Wilson
"Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success." — Tom Kite
"My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching." — Twyla Tharp
"My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it." — Whitney Houston
"Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden." — Orson Scott Card
"Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained." — John Stuart Mill
"Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil." — Tom Vilsack
"Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way." — Noam Chomsky
"It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art." — Oscar Wilde
"With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless." — Vince Neil
"Lawyers, I suppose, were children once." — Charles Lamb
"We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham." — King Hussein I
"The truth is, we have this idea that late night is about creativity and being cool, but that's not our job. Our job is to get as many people watching the commercials in between our show. That's the reality of it." — Jimmy Kimmel
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." — Andy Warhol
"Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies." — Anish Kapoor
"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence." — Joseph Roux
"Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro." — Dave Barry
"I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role." — Kate Mara
"I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown." — Diane Cilento
"Great hopes make great men." — Thomas Fuller
"If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough." — Ann Landers
"I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that." — Nicole Kidman
"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself." — Josh Billings
"I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be." — Lisa Marie Presley
"True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others." — William J. H. Boetcker
"Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice." — Reinhold Niebuhr
"The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to." — Jeremy Rifkin
"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key." — Gustave Flaubert
"I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen." — Eddie Redmayne
"I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose." — Arizona Muse
"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets." — Barack Obama
"I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves." — E. O. Wilson
"The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have." — Tadao Ando
"And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so." — Norman MacCaig
"If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain." — William Howard Taft
"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." — Francis Bacon
"The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods." — Bill Cosby
"The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it." — Murray Kempton
"I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success." — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
"Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion." — Taslima Nasrin
"Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to." — Ethan Coen
"We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy." — Jill Bennett
"Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts." — Robert Morgan
"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival." — Aristotle
"Marriage is an adventure, like going to war." — Gilbert K. Chesterton
"There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens." — Leon Trotsky
"I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale." — Brad Pitt
"First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it." — Norman Schwarzkopf
"I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know." — Lennart Nilsson
"I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it." — Sean Bean
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." — Mignon McLaughlin
"There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that." — Derek Jeter
"God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease." — Frank Knox
"It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology." — Michael Morpurgo
"Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked." — Saint Augustine
"When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it." — Ralph Fiennes
"Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy." — Suzanne Fields
"Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around." — Bryan White
"The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun." — Ricky Williams
"Young girls look to me as a role model and think I crash diet to keep slim. That's not true, I always eat properly." — Denise Van Outen
"The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking, 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?' They say, 'How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?'" — Mitt Romney
"There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings." — Quentin Crisp
"The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering." — Benjamin Spock
"The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat." — John Pistole
"When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it." — Herb Alpert
"Now that I'm a mom, I'm way more laid back. If you come into my house, don't look for a coaster. Forget it. There is not a piece of furniture in my house now that is too precious." — Angela Kinsey
"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." — George S. Patton
"One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government." — Donald Trump
"I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights." — Steve Israel
"I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature how words alone can get your heart doing that." — Laura Marling
"I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute." — Loni Anderson
"You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me." — Eminem
"The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it." — William Temple
"Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'" — Rachel Weisz
"Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace." — Walter Ulbricht
"Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again." — W. Clement Stone
"The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life." — Daniel Radcliffe
"A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats." — Neal Barnard
"I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them." — Carlos Fuentes
"Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion." — Richard John Neuhaus
"What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us." — Henry A. Wallace
"While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." — Sarah Vowell
"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety." — Sigmund Freud
"It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself." — Epicurus
"Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure." — David K. Shipler
"A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end." — Henry A. Wallace
"Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole." — Arthur Keith
"Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work." — Lance Armstrong
"My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were." — Chazz Palminteri
"Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making." — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do." — Laurel Clark
"At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive." — Paul Feig
"I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave." — Joseph Campbell
"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living." — Stephen Gardiner
"Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today." — Joel Osteen
"Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made." — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land." — Morihei Ueshiba
"I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world." — Muhammad Ali
"I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight." — Mark Ruffalo
"If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time." — Mark Hanna
"Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it." — Tom Holt
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." — Benito Mussolini
"Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that." — Imelda Staunton
"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green." — Thomas Carlyle
"Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church." — Goldwin Smith
"I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain." — Paul Cezanne
"Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I'm going to work out to be more positive, more active. It's proactive." — John Krasinski
"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" — Robert Kennedy
"I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect." — J. D. Salinger
"We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests." — Nadia Comaneci
"But men are men the best sometimes forget." — William Shakespeare
"I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching." — Ellie Goulding
"My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics." — Jared Harris
"The time is now for Congress to address health care in America." — John Conyers
"When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures." — Jo Nesbo
"If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him." — Clint Eastwood
"Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent." — George Bernard Shaw
"The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this." — Mary Martin
"My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting." — Ben Affleck
"My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis." — Emeril Lagasse
"The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision." — Ho Chi Minh
"I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something." — David Cone
"I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime." — George Saunders
"I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do." — Jeff Bridges
"Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency." — Desmond Tutu
"My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners." — Agnes Smedley
"World War II was the last government program that really worked." — George Will
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe." — Andy Rooney
"Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too." — Albert J. Nock
"Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money." — Howard Dean
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." — P. J. O'Rourke
"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides." — Jules Verne
"Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice." — Philip Levine
"Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy." — Christopher Hitchens
"House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust." — John Boehner
"I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened." — Loretta Lynn
"Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all." — Rube Goldberg
"I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly." — Lady Gaga
"Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services." — Julie Bishop
"The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads." — John Moody
"I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow." — Howard Nemerov
"Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology." — Mason Cooley
"Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own." — Nelson Algren
"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine." — Thomas Jefferson
"All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time." — Julie Andrews
"As soon as I get my car I think I'll be going to the cinema more. Since I don't go very often, there are no films that are a must see at the moment. I usually wait till they come out on DVD." — Tom Felton
"We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art." — Salvador Dali
"Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history." — Nicolas Chamfort
"Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house." — Henri Poincare
"Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?" — Plato
"I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to 10 years. I'm a 'Sopranos' fan, I'm a 'Wire' fan, I'm a 'Mad Men' fan. I'm a 'Deadwood' fan. It makes me optimistic for the future of storytelling on TV that producers are willing to take that kind of jump." — Jo Nesbo
"Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built." — Abraham Lincoln
"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist." — David Hockney
"What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it." — Danica McKellar
"The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish." — Pope John Paul II
"Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive." — Victor Hugo
"All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family." — Amy Winehouse
"I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature." — Michelle Bachelet
"I have an amazing relationship with my wife, but sometimes there are arguments. It happens." — Kris Allen
"If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order." — Pat Robertson
"Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much." — Donald Trump
"The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel." — John Boehner
"I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor." — Jonny Lee Miller
"It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work." — Harry S. Truman
"Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence." — Saint Basil
"Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages." — Irene Peter
"I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me." — Alan Alda
"Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty." — Adam Sandler
"It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail." — Vladimir Nabokov
"A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life." — Walter Bagehot
"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich." — Henry Ward Beecher
"The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival." — Noam Chomsky
"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art." — Leonardo da Vinci
"I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day." — Peter Ustinov
"The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress." — Beth Henley
"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards." — Theodore Roosevelt
"For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice." — Nana Mouskouri
"Success is survival." — Leonard Cohen
"It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak." — Eric Hoffer
"The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that." — Todd Solondz
"Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us." — Mitt Romney
"Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace." — Michelle Bachelet
"Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity." — L. Frank Baum
"Bondage is of the mind freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be." — Ramakrishna
"The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday." — Paris Hilton
"It's fun being in Islamic countries, to know there's only one religion. There's order. You wear a burqa. There's no choice. People are happy with that." — Prince
"I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so." — Timothy White
"I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it." — Grandma Moses
"That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy." — Freda Adler
"Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage." — John le Carre
"It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true I was raised in a freight car." — Merle Haggard
"The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food." — Mark Hyman
"It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years." — Annie Lennox
"When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not." — Augusten Burroughs
"The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence." — John Jay Hooker
"When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." — Edmund Burke
"Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone." — Hilaire Belloc
"Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization." — Lincoln Steffens
"Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life." — W. C. Fields
"Parking is a nightmare for me... I still have sensors on my car that help me park." — Jordana Brewster
"But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality." — Roger Penrose
"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher." — William Wordsworth
"Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort." — Henry Rollins
"I'm a fan of horrors. I love the ones that make you jump. My girlfriend hates it. I've been dating her for one-and-a-half years and I'm crazy about her, but she's terrified of horror films. Not the cute 'Will you hold me?' way, but she's weeping. With 'House of Wax,' we'll be sleeping and I'll go to the bathroom and she's sitting up waiting for me." — Jared Padalecki
"Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh." — Ambrose Bierce
"I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks." — Justin Cronin
"Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to." — Harry Emerson Fosdick
"Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions." — Oscar Hammerstein II
"I got the wake-up call that no one is policing our oceans. I wondered, how can I do anything? What really can I do to make things better? There are some perks to being a celebrity. My job is to be funny once in a while, but it's my responsibility to make good use of it." — Angela Kinsey
"The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity." — Dan Savage